FIRE’s Inaugural Webinar6 p.m.With Will CreeleyDuring the hour-long webinar, Will will provide an overview of the legal principles supporting the right to freedom of expression on campus. A question and answer session will follow.

FIRE’s Robert Shibley will be on Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel at 7:45 a.m. Eastern this Sunday to discuss FIRE’s list of the Top 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech. Be sure to tune in!

Friday, March 9, 2012

FIRE Appearance on NRA News (radio)

10:20 p.m.

With Adam Kissel

Adam Kissel, Vice President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), speaking on fallout at University of Rochester.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

FIRE Q & A at West Chester University

6 p.m.

With Peter Bonilla

Swope Music Building — Gates Family Recital Hall

FIRE’s own Peter Bonilla, Assistant Director of the Individual Rights Defense Program, will be visiting West Chester University for an event sponsored by the WCU Students For Liberty. The club is hosting a screening of the film Indoctrinate U, followed by a Q&A session featuring Peter and WCU Professor Chris Stangl

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

FIRE Lecture at Michicagn State University

6 p.m., 8 p.m.

Adam Kissel, Vice President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), will be speaking on student rights. MSU is known for its ‘Red Alert’ rating for unconstitutional speech codes. (From Facebook event page)

FIRE President Greg Lukianoff appeared recently on the web series "The B.S. of A." to discuss censorship on college campuses. Greg argues that silencing campus speech teaches today’s students that their highest priority should be to avoid hurting others’ feelings rather than intellectual achievement or engaging with the marketplace of ideas. Greg reminds viewers that if they went to four years of college and never had their ideas challenged, they probably didn’t learn very much.

FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley is participating in a summit at Seton Hall University School of Law in South Orange, New Jersey. The Seton Hall Legislative Journal called the summit to discuss "Bullying and the Social Media Generation: The Effects of the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Statute on School Administration, Students, and Teachers." Will’s panel, which begins at 2:30 pm, will focus on the First Amendment implications of the state’s law.

Last month, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to fire a controversial Indian politician who had been teaching uncontroversial economics courses, due to his publication of his political opinions about how to handle terrorism in India. A few months earlier, the dean of the College had instituted a Freshman Pledge stating that "kindness" was "on a par with intellectual attainment," pressuring students to publicly pledge to official Harvard College values. In 2010, the dean of the law school asserted that as a "social justice" law school, HLS ruled certain ideas automatically out of bounds. What has happened to free speech and freedom of conscience at Harvard?